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The stripped-back state of the arts in the UK

The stripped-back state of the arts in the UK

Today, Northern Ballet is performing Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon without its orchestra.

Two of the nation’s core arts institutions have been stripped bare by Arts Council England.

This is not what Maynard Keynes envisaged.

ACE must be reformed from top to bottom.

Its CEO Darren Henley tweets every night from a different venue outside London saying how wonderful things are under his aegis. He needs to spend more nights at home, counting his redundancy pay.

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